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Essenese Obhan, Aparna Kareer and Sumathi Chandrashekaran of Obhan and Associates review India’s requirements on the working of patents, in particular for imported inventions, and consider the impact on compulsory licences

Sanjay Kumar and Arpita Sawhney of Remfry & Sagar consider the conflicting issues of patent protection and freedom of transit

Nandita Saikia of Saikrishna and Associates considers the proposed copyright law reform

Growing investment in India, and patent reform, have put more attention on the country’s courts. In a roundtable discussion held in Delhi in August, James Nurton asked litigation specialists how judges are responding, whether reforms are needed and what strategies parties should adopt for success

When a party receives a notice letter from a trade mark owner making an allegation of trade mark infringement, one of the first steps that the party should take following receipt of the notice letter (after conferring with counsel) is to review any insurance policy which it may have to ascertain whether insurance coverage is available. Too often, parties simply assume that their insurance policy does not provide protection for claims of trade mark infringement and miss out on the benefits that they are paying their insurance companies to provide.

In a recent decision, the Federal Supreme Court has confirmed some important principles that are relevant for both plaintiffs and defendants in trade mark non-use cancellation actions.

Under section 30 of the Singapore Patents Act, an application may proceed to grant based on the grant of or final results of the search and examination of a corresponding application. As defined in section 2 of the Singapore Patents Act, a corresponding application is, inter alia, an application that is subject to a priority claim based on an application which is also the basis for a priority claim for the Singapore application.

The European Patent Office is to clarify its rules for filing divisional applications

USPTO director David Kappos told a group of minority business owners and enterprise developers last week that recent data shows minorities are less likely to use the US IP system

Australia has halted inquiries into the controversial topics of gene patents and plain packaging for cigarettes because of the indecisive general election